On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:56 +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: > I am very patiently trying to help my sister move her 30Gb of data > from an external HFS+ drive (originally used on a Mac) to her PC > laptop (noooo, the dark side!) > > So far I copied the data to my G5 and reformatted the external drive > on the PC (NTFS). I don't want to use FAT32... > > Then I discovered fricken Tiger doesn't WRITE to NTFS volumes yet. Bugger! >
Not even any Linux distros write to NTFS. I think it is a legal issue... > So I tried copying the data direct to the laptop. It seems there are > some long file names that the PC doesn't like and the copy fails (a > real pain half way through 30Gb). > > So then I try to be smart arse and create an uncompressed ZIP file > with Stuffit. > > When I try to expand it on the PC (with either ZP or Stuffit Standard > 8) I get a series of 'archive verification failed' errors, partial > expansion then Stuffit barfs. > > Anyone got some advice before I go find the hammer? > > An app to clean the file names first? Something else? Format at GAT32 > (external drive) copy the data, etc... Tried formatting as a tarball instead? (.tar, or something along those lines). There will be a similar uncompressing agent for the PC. Seeya Rod
